The timed 'up and go' test: Reliability and validity in persons with unilateral lower limb amputation

Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

Volumn 80, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 825-828

  Schoppen, Tanneke ^a   Boonstra, Annemarijke ^a   Groothoff, Johan W ^a   De Vries, Jaap ^a   Göeken, Ludwig N H ^a   Eisma, Willem H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; LEG AMPUTATION; MALE; MOBILIZATION; QUESTIONNAIRE; RELIABILITY; VALIDATION PROCESS;

EID: 0032992227     PISSN: 00039993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-9993(99)90234-4     Document Type: Article

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